Example sentences of "not really [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They hijack Englishness and do not really speak for most English people . |
| 2 | This sort of experiment shows however that with materials of this character one can not really distinguish between practical strength and brittleness so that the introduction of weak internal surfaces can be regarded as raising the strength . |
| 3 | C — Closed : The contents of the SPR have now been acted upon and the problem has either been fixed , or cleared for some other reason , for example the problem did not really exist at all , or there was a misunderstanding on the part of the originator . |
| 4 | C — Closed The contents of the SPR have now been acted upon and the problem has either been fixed , or cleared for some other reason , for example the problem did not really exist at all , or there was a misunderstanding on the part of the originator . |
| 5 | C — Closed — The contents of the SPR have now been acted upon and the problem has either been fixed , or cleared for some other reason , for example the problem did not really exist at all , or there was a misunderstanding on the part of the originator . |
| 6 | She had once explained that slaughtering animals secretly and trading on the black market was simply bending the law a little and not really stealing at all , but real thieves were as bad as liars . |
| 7 | This orthodox view does not really rest on factual evidence , though such evidence is sometimes brought in to back it . |
| 8 | Thus class divisions were not really disrupted by this movement . |
| 9 | When Margaret Thatcher came on the show my nephew said to me , ‘ You 're not really welcome in this house after having THAT woman on the show . ’ |
| 10 | Some of these fixed stars do , in fact , appear to change very slightly their positions relative to each other as the earth orbits around the sun : they are not really fixed at all ! |
| 11 | Most of the time we do not really think about this but sometimes it is interesting to see how our language changes according to the role we play . |
| 12 | Present them with a vision of a world in which meals were eaten at a table instead of on the knees before the flickering screen ; in which conversation was commonplace ; political and social ideas worked out by individuals , not spoon-fed into the mind by paid commentators ; a TV-less world in which we danced and sang and played charades to entertain ourselves or even popped round to the neighbours ; in which our children were not fed visions of death and dead bodies on the daily news , their infant imaginations no longer turned feverish and fearful by the sobs and sorrows of the bereaved ; nor subject to the cruel , disagreeable and frequently morbid fictional fantasies of others — would we not really vote for this ? |
| 13 | Well , I think he was good player — but playing in that Liverpool side was nt difficult , and he s not really played for any other side so its hard to tell exactly how good he is . |
| 14 | It is difficult to assess the number of garbage pickers , because this fluctuates seasonally and because they are not really enumerated in official statistics , but Birkbeck estimates that at the time of the study , there were between 1,200 and 1,700 garbage pickers in Cali . |
| 15 | They 're , they 're not really related to true finances . |
| 16 | The famous ‘ secrecy ’ of the Messiah in St Mark 's Gospel , for instance ( 'See thou say nothing to any man' ) , does not really fit into either of Lewis 's categories of raving lunatic or self-proclaimed Divinity . |
| 17 | I 'm not really living at all . |
| 18 | Not really sleeping at all . |
| 19 | Mark could not really enter into such things . |
| 20 | Although Water Newton 's remains attracted the attention of leading antiquarians from Camden to Stukeley , their full potential was not really appreciated until 1828 , when Artis published copious illustrations of his 1820–7 excavations . |
| 21 | You could always stand back and say , ‘ I 'm not really going through all that angst and stuff , that 's just my persona . ’ |
| 22 | They 're not really used for serious cooking but are OK for making a hot drink en route . |
| 23 | Until now , the museum has exhibited only 900 of the 32,000 works it actually owns , though 17,000 of these are drawings , videos and photographs which do not really qualify for permanent showing . |
| 24 | This is not really suited for binocular observation , but it is one of the few Mira variables easily found with binoculars when near maximum . |
| 25 | I understand the Gulf Trust 's anxiety , but I think they have not really focused on this case or heard the reasonableness of advanced payments . ’ |
| 26 | He does n't really seem to be very careful about distinguishing intellect from the one and , and so forth , does n't really , he 's not , he 's not really focusing on that difference and so seems to let it lapse in a less than useful way . |
| 27 | The pattern of attacks has not really changed at all ; the Iraqis go for the Iranian oil tankers on the shuttle from Kharg Island to Larak Island , and the Iranians then retaliate with a burst of rocket-propelled grenades and machine gun fire against almost any vessel unaccompanied by a warship . |
| 28 | It is fighters which save them therefore the message is that they 're not really rescued at all because the world is in the same situation as the island . |
| 29 | But the exigencies of operatic life did not really appeal to one of his perfectionist standards . |
| 30 | That 's why we 're not really rushing into this , however precipitate it might seem on the surface . ’ |